For July 4th, witness the largest fireworks display of all time

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If you’ve played the surprisingly good Spec Ops: The Line, you’ll forever associate the United Arab Emirates’ most indulgent city, Dubai, with a tale of madness, carnage, and a semi-secret ending where certain gentleman are welcomed to the ruined city. However, if you live in a part of the world where Independence Day isn’t celebrated or large fireworks displays simply can’t happen due to city infrastructure, then for a moment you can also associate Dubai as a place where the most extravagant, largest, world-record-holding fireworks display took place. If you look to the sky on July 4 and see nothing but brownstones or apartment buildings like some of us, you can tune into the below video and watch the biggest fireworks display ever recorded.

If you can look up into the sky on July 4 and see some rad sparkles unobstructed by buildings, it’s still not going to be as rad as the ones captured on camera below.

Within the first minute of the extravagant 2014 New Year’s Eve celebration, Dubai smashed the Guinness World Records title for the largest fireworks display. It fired off 479,651 shells in just six minutes, which is nearly 80,000 shells per minute, and 1,330 per second.

Kuwait set the previous record back in 2011, firing off 77,282 shells over the course of an hour-long show.

The new record-holding show was designed by New York-based Fireworks by Grucci, owned by Phil Grucci. The performance took over 5,000 man-hours to install, and was designed over a 10-month period.

So, if you can’t fire off your own rockets on Friday and really are afraid of snakes ever since that one South Park episode, you can watch the above video and see every part of the Dubai show that broke the world record for largest fireworks display.